German painter and printmaker (1891–1969)
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He painted Weimar Germany without mercy: the mutilated veterans, the sex workers, the rot beneath the glitter. Otto Dix made art from what polite society preferred not to see.
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was born in Germany on 2 December 1891. His ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war made him a defining figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, alongside George Grosz and Max Beckmann. As both painter and printmaker, he built a body of work that refused to look away from violence, disfigurement, and social decay. He died on 25 July 1969, leaving behind images that still unsettle.
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RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' [now lost] created such a sensation in Dresden
If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.
War too, must be seen as a natural occurrence.
Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, cats, gas, artillery, filth, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that is what war is!
I'm a man who is concerned with reality. I have to see everything. I have to plumb the depths of life. And so I go to war. That's why I volunteered [in the German army].
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